Baz Luhrmann’s films revel in musical anachronism, and Elvis Presley was himself the ultimate musical anachronism, so there’s a perfect synergy between artist and subject [...]

Alex Garland’s latest film, Men, takes us on an eerie and elliptical journey through the psyche of Harper Marlowe, a British woman, played by Jessie Buckley, who makes a [...]

Holy Spider, the third feature directed by Ali Abbasi, is also the third film to focus on Saeed Hanaei, the so-called “Spider Killer,” who murdered sixteen sex workers in [...]

Over his last couple of films, Ruben Östlund has gradually gestured towards a new kind of social media event, or a new way of understanding events as they happen in the [...]

Tarik Saleh’s follow-up to The Nile Hilton Incident is another probing examination of the ruptures that drive contemporary Egyptian society, told this time through the lens [...]

For the Dardennes, their home town of Seraing is much like Thomas Hardy’s Wessex or William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County – a mythographic setting as much as an [...]

Claire Denis’ latest film is an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 1984 novel Stars at Noon, which revolves around an unnamed American woman living in Nicaragua during the [...]

One of the most tried-and-tested tropes of prestige theatre is the decline of a middle-class white American family. That’s also the subject matter of The Humans, and yet [...]

Celine Sciamma’s latest film is another evocative immersion in the connective tissue between women. Yet where Girlhood focused on female friendship, and Portrait of a Lady [...]

If anything, Steven Soderbergh’s late period creativity has only flourished more during (and after) the pandemic. Since returning to cinema, Soderbergh has largely focused [...]